A new Rare Mage Location, Nightcloak Sanctum, has been revealed!

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A new Epic Mage Spell, Solid Alibi, has been revealed!

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A new Epic Mage Spell, Vengeful Visage, has been revealed!

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A new Legendary Mage Minion, Orion, Mansion Manager, has been revealed!

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A new Legendary Mage Minion, Kel'Thuzad, the Inevitable, has been revealed!

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A new Common Hunter Minion, Batty Guest, has been revealed!

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A new Common Hunter Spell, Frenzied Fangs, has been revealed!

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A new Common Hunter Minion, Stonebound Gargon, has been revealed!

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A new Rare Hunter Minion, Spirit Poacher, has been revealed!

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A new Rare Hunter Spell, Collateral Damage, has been revealed!

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A new Epic Hunter Spell, Wild Spirits, has been revealed!

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Hey all! We are two weeks into the new expansion and I wonder, as always, where´s everyone at. Since noone has started a new thread and I´m too impatient, I figured to take the imaginary torch back from Tetsuo and create the next one once again :P Feel free to share your progress here, lurk in from time to time or completely ignore this thread, whatever you like :) So let me start:

Like always, I´ve hoarded 3 Weekly and Daily quests and bought the TP from day one, so the first day of expansion I´ve jumped to lvl 26. I´ve started to focus on doing XP achievements, I´m at 50% done right now, and just hit lvl 60 thanks to that. My free Legendaries from RT was Crabatoa on lvl 20 and Raj Naz'jan from lvl 50. I still have 6 of this week´s quests, so I´m expecting/hoping to hit lvl 70 by the end of the week to get that sweet 20% bonus :)

How about you? What´s your current RT level? What free Legendary/ies did you get? Share as much as you want :)

Let the hunt begin!

All of the new cards have been revealed, so it's time to talk about the archetypes, packages, and/or individual cards that interest us the most! Naturally, I'll start us off:

To be forthright, I was on the verge of quitting Hearthstone before the reveals began, but something about this expansion pulled me back in. I'm hoping the commitment to moving HS back to the board will actually work out, but we've been here before. I guess we'll see. Anyway, in order by class followed by Neutral:

Demon Hunter: Artificer Xy'mox + the Relics

I don't know where to put them just yet, but they seem fun. I was thinking of a token deck so you can Infuse Xy'mox (and Sire Denathrius?) properly; the Relics have a fairly universal quality to them, so it's just a matter of finding a home.

Druid: Sesselie of the Fae Court and the DR package, Topior the Shrubbagazzor and the Treants/Nature package

All aboard the Druid Train, toot toot! DR Taunt Druid with Hadronox and N'Zoth, the Corruptor is one of my favorite decks of all time, so Sesselie can go right into that alongside Hedge Maze and Death Blossom Whomper. Hopefully the Mini-Set expands on the package further, 'cause there isn't a lot here right now.

Topior is just fucking nuts, and will be quite enjoyable in a deck focused around it or as an additional bonus with Treants. If I don't get Topior in gold I will fix that mistake very quickly.

Mage: Kel'Thuzad, the Inevitable + the Volatile Skeleton cards

Control the board with Frost spells and pings before the...Inevitable...combo of Kael'thas Sinstrider, Brann Bronzebeard, and Kel'Thuzad. Just pulling it off the once might be enough to satisfy me lol. I also hope to make Kel'Thuzad golden, and play him alongside my Kel'Thuzad skin of course :)

Warlock: Lady Darkvein - Going right into my Curselock.

Neutral: Sire Denathrius - Someone will figure out how best to enjoy him, and I want to be there when it happens. Edit: He seems disgusting in Druid, from what little I've seen so far in streams.

Kael'thas Sinstrider - I don't generally do Combo things, but he is a pretty important part of the "Kael'Thuzad" combo.

Stoneborn General and Bog Beast - The General is awesome, will love to cheat that out. Bog Beast is kind of the next Sludge Belcher, a card that saw a lot of play (and still does).

So how about you? What are you hoping to pull + play Day 1?

Mogwai already mentioned this in his last video but sharpsight isn't a keyword granter and shouldn't level Kaisa at burst speed.

90% of the broken evolve mechanic can be tracked to this interaction.

So streamers are starting to complain about the meta after the new set.

While generally on board with straight forward powerhouse decks like Annie and Bard they are drawing the line at the 3 new tempo oriented Champs introduced with the new set.

Now I understand the issue, if you're a streamer whose credibility depends on getting to masters you're gonna hate teching between control Annie, big follower Bard, and big Champs from the new set.

Infact the meta in un-techable there is no best climbing option, and honestly I'm kinda fine with it. 

We've talked in detail about how nobody wanted to nerf Annie and Bard so instead the devs just released a bunch of counters.

So its going to feel like queuing into a whirlwind but if you don't care about being the most hard-core try hard that ever was you can actually have a lot of fun with the new cards and opponents you'll run into.

Not everything needs a solution, not all problems need to be solved sometimes you just have to enjoy the journey the devs have laid out for you.

Competition Theme: Location, Location, Location

So, where we dropping boys?

• You must create a Location card
  • It's as simple as that! Check out our expansion guide if you want a refresher on how Locations work, and to see the existing Locations!

BloodMefist has us designing Locations ahead of the new expansion launch - we had to do it sometime, and what better time than now?

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Competition Phases

Here are the phases of this card design competition

• Submission Phase: Starts on Mon, Jul 25 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sat, Jul 30 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, Jul 30 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sun, Jul 31 16:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, Jul 31 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Mon, Aug 1 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

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A new Rare Ionia Unit, Kinkou Student, has been revealed!

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So Evelyn is an amazing card with an amazing champ spell. Like legit in the right deck your opponent has no chance, really digging shen right now because devluating blocks really help you get the maximum value from Evelyn.

But with all that said there are literally only 3 cards worth playing in her kit. Domination and vora and Evelyn herslef, playing more husks does nothing when all you need to do is curve into her.

And everything else is too understated to be playable. Sulfur is a 1/3 that doesn't cycle gross, hate spike is so much worse then vile feast or mystic shot it's not even funny, allure is a meme, solitude and Steme don't really help Evelyn do what she's trying to do.

So in summary amazing champ my favorite from the new set, but just a frickin awful kit, that needs stat buffs on her followers or post release support.

The real Hallowed champion is Eternal Dancers.

I mean, they found a way to make Thresh look even worse. I didn't think that was possible. And I'm not even sure why that card has Hallowed. It does everything, why do I need a bonus when it dies?

I really want them to stray away from WOW for an expansion or 2

My dream theme is mythological gods. Norse, Greek or even Japanese, Egyptian. 

Title essentially

With all this hub bub around DKs potential introduction into the game I wanted to posit my theory, since they'd need extra cards to start them on their journey. What better way to introduce their mechanics and connection to each class than via dual class cards? Flavor wise this could be presented as the other classes being corrupted and turned undead!

Curious on anyone's thoughts.

P.S. I still think there's a small chance that this has all been a red herring and we get Evokers next expansion

Its no secret that I generally despised the first part of Worldwaker as a standalone set.

Obviously good cards were printed that did obviously good things, and played for obviously good wincons.

But generally speaking I feel that the new cards have done a great job of answering certain intended problems.

Like sure Annie Tf will still put up great winrates, but it can be more easily countered now.

Bard puts out overstated followers but with two new high tempo Champs follower stats don't matter as much.

New archetypes were created that have unique play patterns that are interested and dynamic, demanding creative player responses.

With everything we've seen here I can confidently say that World Waker had been salvaged and any left that the expansion has to show us will only be further possitive developments.

Competition Theme: Just My Card Type

Sometimes a card just isn't the right one for a situation. If only it were a different card type...

• You must create a card that can change itself or another card into one of a different card type
  • Remornia, Living Blade is a fantastic example, but something like Cannonmaster Smythe would also count!

MrRhapsody has seen our new Living Blade and wants to make sure we all get a taste of that transformative power!

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Competition Phases

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• Submission Phase: Starts on Mon, Jul 18 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sat, Jul 23 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, Jul 23 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sun, Jul 24 16:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, Jul 24 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Mon, Jul 25 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
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So for those who have looked at the stats lately they will know that Annie and Bard are the two highest played Champs in the game in terms of the number of high tier lists they are present in.

I've already spoken about why ravembloom is a problematic and poorly designed card in its current iteration aka should buff spells not creatures, both is too powerful for a 1 mana landmark.

But Bard is a whole nother kettle of fish. Annie while being the A tier queen with 3 lists, Bard is the S tier king with two lists but can essentially be jammed anywhere and win as Mogwai often complains.

Why is this? Well high rolling in a word, boom two chimes okay that's a 4/4 for one mana, boom another 3 chimes k that's a 7/7 on turn 4 and you basically nothing to increase the chime level in your deck except run Bard as a champion.

Now you'll say that's astronomically low ods, and I would say yes but turns out free wins are free wins and in a game based around a 50-58% matchup table free wins are king.

The new cards and new expansion are looking to learn lessons from mistakes of the last but at the end of the day if bards free chime placement isn't nerfed 3 - 2 and ravenbloom doesn't stop globally buffing creatures even creatures spawned like tokens the metas not really going to change in a healthy way like it should.

Just my two cents, but a lot of players are getting sick of hearthstone Bard and I'm one of them and Annie I always hated soooo plz Riot just tweak them a bit.